LOS ANGELES — Is the chippiness between the Mets and Dodgers that crept up Friday finished?
“We’ll see,” Francisco Alvarez said Saturday during a workout at Dodger Stadium. “We’ll see what’s the subsequent step.”
Alvarez was in the midst of one incident during Game 5.
didn’t go over too well with Francisco Alvarez. Vincent Carchietta-Imagn Images
Los Angeles’ Andy Pages drilled a fourth-inning home run that trimmed the Mets result in 8-2, and Pages watched it go.
He walked 4 steps, flipped his bat after which began a slow trot across the bases.
By the point he crossed home plate, Alvarez was waiting for him.
“I just said, ‘Run the bases,’ ” Alvarez recalled ahead of Sunday’s Game 6.
Pages had just a few words for Alvarez in response and put his finger to his lips to shush Alvarez.
David Peterson also appeared to have some words for Max Muncy when the 2 converged at first base on a groundout within the fourth inning. As often happens when two teams play one another repeatedly with these sorts of stakes, the intensity has ratcheted up.
“The final thing you need to do is attempt to create something unnecessary on the sector,” manager Carlos Mendoza said Saturday, speaking generally of the contentiousness. “They’re competing. We all know all the pieces is do-or-die type deal. And so they’re competitors. And sometimes players will show their emotions.
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“However the final thing you need to do is get up a team. That’s not who we’re. We’re going to proceed to play our game, and we’re not here to try to create anything.”
It’s also possible that the scrappiness awoke Alvarez, who plays with emotion. After a rough begin to his postseason — a .167 average and .377 OPS through the primary 11 games — the 22-year-old catcher went 3-for-4 with a double and RBI single Friday.
Does he enjoy this sort of heat-of-the-moment, back-and-forth with one other team?
“I really like that,” Alvarez said.
